Star Wars: 20 Things You Somehow Missed In Episode II: Attack Of The Clones

20 years on from Attack of the Clones' debut, it's time to dive back into all things Episode II!

[@baldieman64]

Count Dooku's curved lightsabre hilt is a direct homage to actor Christopher Lee's ancestor, Charlemagne (King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and the Emperor of the Romans from 800) who owned a sabre with a similarly curved hilt.

[@Gabriel_Cook]

👍Comment ^ needs more likes.👍

[@blakeetter280]

He was also related to Robert E Lee indirectly. Robert had an uncle in France who was an ancestor to the famous actor. I think it’s only a few generations too.

[@CD-Gaming]

It's also done that way to be easier for fencing, a use that had fallen out of favour by the time of Phantom Menace even!

[@GimbalosMorkinar]

Most of Europe is related to Charlemagne. Not really something to brag about.

[@baldieman64]

@@GimbalosMorkinar True, but very few can trace a verifiable direct lineage.

[@hellothere7598]

Vader: how many pizzas should we order? Palpatine: order 66

[@quinetastic]

🤣EXCELLENT comment...

[@benjaminwilliams1292]

Mr. Ed once asked Wilbur to buy 40 pizzas for his girlfriend. "You know what that means? Big tummy ache 😫 🤣

[@LightsaberGoBrrrrrr]

As a kid Maul was my favorite sith and in a sense still is. But really as an adult it’s Dooku no doubt. So elegant, so deadly, so conflicted. And the only man to easily spank kenobi

[@LightsaberGoBrrrrrr]

Twice 😂

[@Sephiroth144]

@@LightsaberGoBrrrrrr Thrice. That... that time on Cato Nemodia doesn't count- and we promised to never talk about that night again, Count.

[@FrankGUNstein]

The animated shows make maul so much better! Highly recommend both clone wars and rebels 👍👍

[@LightsaberGoBrrrrrr]

@@FrankGUNstein I’ve watched all the clone wars and I’ve seen the kenobi/mail scene from rebels. I respect that they brought him back, and I LOVE several of the duels he’s in during the clone wars. However, I loved the real ray park live action Maul the best. Sam Witwer is a great star killer but I could go either way with him as maul. It’s really overly dramatic speech

[@benjaminwilliams1292]

Instead of cutting off Anakin's arm in Episode II he could have bitten him on the neck, turning him into a Vampire 🧛‍♀️ 🤔

[@VickStarkiller]

I maintain that Attack of the Clones was a good movie if for no other reason, than what it wanted to be. It’s like a mix of this tragic romance, a political thriller as well as a war movie. With better dialogue, it could’ve been among the better Star Wars movies.

[@JihadiFemboy]

I love AOTC but I don't think it needs better dialogue. The dialogue is on par with the other Lucas era SW films

[@blakeetter280]

I always viewed it as exactly how the story should logically be portrayed, it just happens that that story isn’t a typical action flick. Like everyone quotes anakin being awkward as if he would somehow be smooth as a Jedi teenager with his crush and literally zero experience? Portrayed perfectly

[@KaiCrafted]

I genuinely wondered for years how I ended up missing Ep III from my VHS collection. To find out that they never released a tape it suddenly makes sense haha

[@benjaminwilliams1292]

A History Of Violence, also released in 2005, was the last movie released on VHS. I didn't know Episode III wasn't released on tape

[@tylerbuhler7342]

Dude same

[@tronicman1]

Recently rewatched episode II. Still love it like the first time when I saw it in cinema.

[@spencertaylor-sputtaylor3937]

#11 is a fact I did know in the past. Not surprised though. That’s such a stacked year for Cinema!!! My goodness Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Spiderman, and Star Wars all releasing films that year?!?! Damn I wish I could go back to that year as an adult!

[@Lurker-dk8jk]

And Christopher Lee was in two of them! Even for a consummate actor like himself, that's quite a feat at 79 years. Always working was he.

[@corruptangel6793]

It was not a cheap year for parents lol

[@Slixcy]

When I was younger general grievous was always my favourite but now as a 15 year old count dooku is definitely my favourite, I still love general grievous but now I'm older I fully understand dooku

[@bendavis6550]

I'm a star wars movies and games fan been playing star wars the old republic since 2011 oops sorry wrong channel sorry for any misspells or mistakes in spelling.

[@LightsaberGoBrrrrrr]

Heck yea man, good on you for being able to recognize the duality of man at a young age. Such a tragic end for him too when you think about. As powerful as he was, still he’s just another of Sidious’ pawns

[@seanahmed9079]

I had major issues with it at the time but Star Wars really does age well. Atleast the prequels.

[@olliesmith2890]

I love Episode 2 nearly as much as Episode 3, in terms of the prequels. Also i still have my VHS player and collection of VHS movies on tape thank you.

[@donaldcampbell3043]

Attack of the Clones is my favorite Star Wars movie, closely followed by Rogue One. I'm of the generation that should love the first trilogy, I'm 54, but I guess it's probably because I never saw them in order, so wasn't drawn in the same... Oh and on opening day for AotC I sat 5 seats away from young Boba, as Daniel Logan was doing promotional work at the theater that day.

[@Buddha_the_Pug]

I think i remember Jackson saying the lightsaber has the initials BMF on it, not the whole thing

[@joenesvick7043]

The VHS didn't even have widescreen, good thing I already upgraded to DVD (then blu ray and now 4K)

[@Onio_362]

2:03 I noticed that Anakin has yellow in vehicles that he used in the prequels. His podracer in the phantom menace, his speeder in attack of the clones, and his starfighter in revenge of the sith.

[@LightsaberGoBrrrrrr]

Let’s remember that when people try to explain Qui Gon losing to Maul as some random novel BS of him “getting old, being 60” dooku was 80 plus throughout the clone wars and sidious was in his 60s. All humans 🤨

[@ianoag]

Ahh there's that word "divisive" again LOL . . . . Personally I liked Episode II and thanks for confirming that Jango did actually bump his head when boarding his ship - Still, it could have been worse, someone could have decapited him with a lightsaber . . . Oh.... wait..... my bad.

[@withershin]

Aww I miss this movie. Saw it on film and then on one of the first digital projectors. In digital, before they realized running them at full power was expensive, the curtains came down and up and I got to see this in real wide screen (back when people still complained about black bars - this theatre used curtains). It was gorgeous in OG digital. Even this video isn't wide enough.

[@themetalslayer2260]

only 30 kills for Anakin??? He kills a full settlement of Tusken raiders on Tatooine and i think this settlement counts more than 30 persons

[@tylerbuhler7342]

#16 Puts so much prospective on my childhood. I spent years searching thriftstores to complete my vhs collection of all the star wars movies… but the whole time my collection was completed and i never knew it

[@gregy9980]

🤣

[@CloneScavengerVulpin8389]

Ki-adi-mundi briefly had a green lightsaber in the arena evacuation.

[@B1UK]

Lol you said the nightclub scene didn’t rely on blue screen and I’m sat thinking bro Mcgregor’s hair is blue screen fs 😂😂

[@brawnzen]

No-one has pointed out how the compositors forgot to render the Camino clones' steak & vegetables.

[@porkcracklins630]

Somehow missed? I'm pretty sure we missed this stuff because we were all asleep during this snoozefest. I honestly enjoy the Holiday Special more than Ep2.

[@TheAceWolfe01]

Yeah.. Episode III wasn't released on VHS in Europe either.. Unless it was in a very few select countries, that is

[@baldieman64]

It got a VHS release in the UK and Ireland, as well as Australia.

[@THESLICKNESSEDM]

I call the cow thingy a alien vegetarian deer tick

[@jami_holmes]

during part of the genosha battle scene Samuel L Jackson wasn’t present ! there was a stand in person !

[@BOABModels]

I've been to the real Jedi library - it's based on the library of Trinity college Dublin.

[@THESLICKNESSEDM]

The naboo starfighter Anakin used in episode 1 was the same color scheme as well mandos had a yellow panel too 😎🤙🏼

[@TheMimiSard]

I have to wonder if the idea of Vaapad was invented to give an in-universe reason behind Mace Windu's purple lightsaber.

[@daviddogvane7266]

You left out when Anakin got his light Saber snagged on his robe while in the machine factory.

[@ronstuff6330]

I missed a lot because I fell asleep. Had I known star wars 8 was coming, I would have taken some amphetamines to keep awake.

[@tzvikrasner6073]

Ah, Attack of the Clones. Otherwise known as the lead-in to All The War Crimes: The Animated Series

[@keaton718]

I always assumed Lee really did all this backflips and stuff.

[@therealking6202]

@4:10 "With the age of the DVD being upon us..." How old is this video?!?!?!?

[@christophersandidge8257]

I still don't understand the hate for this movie. I know there were a few problematic scenes "sand". (Stop with that fucking meme already) but otherwise, it was a damn good movie. The lightsaber duels were great.

[@SplotchTheCatThing]

...that last line... Are you really asking us if we know of any more things that we don't know of? :D Might need to adapt that standard comments-section invitation just a little!

[@TheWorldMemeDatabase]

203,769 deaths, but the top individual killer only has 30? I don’t buy it. They must have estimated the deaths that resulted from those space ships on Geonosis, but then wouldn’t the top killer be the clone trooper pilot who fired the missiles?

[@JeremiahEcks777]

Is Christopher Lee's claim that he performed more sword fights on film than anybody else verifiable? Not that I'd doubt that venerable gentleman, but I'd be interested to know more. In terms of the film, underrated for sure. It has some patchy moments that just don't exist in other SW movies but yet for me the whole is more than the sum of it's parts. I also adore Dooku, not only because Christopher Lee is one of my favourite actors ever, but I just love Dooku as a character. Whilst I understand the whys and wherefores, I do wish Dooku had survived longer in RotS or had a longer fight scene (as filmed). Or perhaps had him introduced in Phantom. I just wish we had more. (I know Dooku is quite well represented elsewhere but as played by Christopher Lee, we don't get a lot!)

[@thcassassinog]

Its just a weird cut and editing goof but at 15:40 to 15:44 after Jango kills the Dino jedi (dont know his name) his holster is cut/lowered down his thigh

[@jenventer7601]

The clones actually have inhibitor chips in there heads as seen in clone wars season 7

[@JihadiFemboy]

20 - Lucas has always been pushing the boundaries of filmmaking and this is one great example. 19 - There's a reason why the speeder Anakin took references the '32 Ford Coupe from American Graffiti, both he and John Milner refuse to grow up and properly mature. Anakin is too attached to his mother and Padme while John is too attached to his life of street racing. Also go watch American Graffiti, very very good time. 18 - Cool 17 - There was a deleted scene with Jocasta Nu and Obi-Wan speaking about Dooku in front of his bust, cool scene but slowed things down a bit too much 16 - AOTC was the first film to be filmed fully on digital but because cinema screens weren't ready for that, they had to make a version suitable for the cinemas too. Lucas pushed technology too far and the cinemas had to quickly catch up by the time ROTS came out lol 15 - Cool 14 - That pan up is made to compliment ESB's ending, ESB ends with a shot with a bunch ships instead of a group shot with some of the characters. Before this pan up, ESB was the odd one out for having a different final shot. The reason why AOTC compliments this final shot with a change to the first shot is because AOTC is ESB in reverse. For AOTC, the heroes start in a high place (Coruscant) and descend into a low place (Geonosis) and the big battle is at the end and for ESB, the heroes start in a low place (Hoth) and ascend into a high place (Cloud City) and the big battle is at the start. 13 - Lucas being smart as usual 12 - Cool 11 - Very very stiff competition but it still made quite a lot 10 - Cool 9 - There were much more sets than you claimed there were, also there was on set shooting like at the lakeside resort on Naboo and Tatooine. 8 - Cool 7 - The wig looks fine but the beard doesn't look too good, doesn't really affect the film too much 6 - Lucas never "overused" CGI, there's more practical effects in each of the prequel films than there were in the entire original trilogy combined. Thank you for being intelligent enough to see that the CGI clones are an impressive feat. There's also a thematic reason to the clones being CGI, because now we have two CGI armies fighting each other. They're fake, just like the war itself. 5 - Lucas taking advantage of such a strange coincidence shows that he's no idiot 4 - Cool but Sam Jackson didn't really nudge Lucas into giving him purple, they talked about it together privately first and that video that we see is clearly a skit. 3 - Cool 2 - Cool 1 - Beginning of a war after all

[@LoneCourier2281]

Okay.

[@yeahyeahyeah5089]

9:14 🤣😅

[@brianbostwick3003]

All of the clones in episode two,had the face of the actor used as captain typho

[@CD-Gaming]

In the novelisation, we get a scene on Kamino with Jango testing Boba on Astromech Droids by looking at the one Obi-Wan was using! It also gives us some insight into the differences between models (i.e. how they all seem to have different functions, which I didn't know at the time!), with them working out Ben was a Jedi purely from his particular pick! Also, I can't quite remember if it was jus the novelisation, the Star Wars Fact File or both that stated that the bust Obi-Wan was inspecting was actually Dooku's! Also, the late great Sir Christopher Lee actually H-A-T-E-D Count Dracula, so you should never mention that name when talking about him! And while I have come around to Episode II in light of the Shitquel Trilogy, I still cannot abide the snooze fest that was R.A. Salvatore's novelisation! Even though I did jus allude to it twice...

[@realitybear5574]

The Storm Trooper CGI did not age well.

[@Sanzaru123]

i didnt miss any of these. what do i win?

[@dabidibup]

I don’t think there are any American Graffiti references in Star Wars, most fans don’t like both Was Darth Vader being black a reference to the 55 Chevy?

[@TheBeelzboss]

That isn't a mullet...

[@nuclearsimian3281]

It bothers me that the Clones aren't in step when they're marching. Its a showcase of coordination in a group.

[@missiejay6736]

The reason villains are right and goodies are left goes back to the Greeks. And old uk panto the villian will (should) always enter stage left (audience right) mostly due to pyrotechnics and lighting xxx

[@blazinthefirepony]

The podracing footage in the bar scene is from Star Wars Episode 1: Racer for the N64.

[@LightsaberGoBrrrrrr]

Hi 👋

[@yadielenielbellecolon982]

🤩👌

[@sam034forever]

Like a bantha

[@acenem]

What about Homer Simpson flying the clone landing craft.

[@blinard1]

Its actually becoming embarrassing how much this channel repeats exactly the same content

[@adsysoncoulter4387]

Wait if episode 2 came out in 2005 like u claim how was it beat in the bix office against harry potter 2 if hp2 came out in 2002? In 2005 it would have been harry potter and the goblet of fire

[@kristoferscott3677]

AOTC came out in 2002. ROTS came out in 2005.

[@spencertaylor-sputtaylor3937]

Bet

[@dinogoldie9716]

What I missed most while watching "Attack of the clones" was being safe in the knowledge that things couldn't get any worse than "The Phantom Menace."

[@garrettwhite5943]

The not having clones in costumes was 'impressive' the first time you see it, but it's aged worse than American democracy. It's definitely the thing that irked me more than anything else about the entire trilogy. None of them felt real in the slightest.

[@edwardbloecher4563]

32 Ford Coupe pronounced coop!!!!!! Not COOPAY!!!!! UGH. English but can't pronounce things properly!

[@Jonny-Sniper]

This really is an awful Star Wars KZbin Channel.

[@VestigeV47]

Disney Star Wars is not Star Wars

[@goheen1701]

Tired yet of insulting the fans old enough to have seen 'Star Wars' in the theatre when it premiered? Telling us that we 'don't know' things that you all 'discovered' 20+ year after the fact doesn't mean that nobody else caught these things. Another click-bait post another lost subscription.

[@daleshelden8394]

It's pronounced coop!

[@daleshelden8394]

And 2016 was the last year that a Japanese company named funei made vcrs so get your facts straight!